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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

You Might Be A Gardening Geek: Rainy Day Edition

You contemplate buying one of those temporary shelters, the kind with the tent roof but no sides, to set up in strategic locations in the garden so you can continue weeding and planting, section by section, in the rain, in the garden.

You go ahead and go to the garden center while it is raining because you figure there will be fewer people there and surely an umbrella will keep you mostly dry. Once there you encounter other gardeners, just like you, doing the same thing.

You walk around your garden in the rain just to see which way the water flows so that later you can make changes to make the water flow where you want it to go.

You are annoyed that your weather station is not working so you don’t know exactly how much rain your garden got, measured accurately to within .03 inches, and instead have to rely on the weather bureau's data, which just isn’t the same.

You are thrilled that even with the threat of rain, your newly hired gardening-helper-nephew-in-law shows up early in the morning and helps move the last of the mulch bags to the back patio and promises to return when it stops raining.

You start looking at some of the shopping sites for spring-flowering bulbs and end up ordering some to be delivered in the fall for planting. (Really, this is a good time to order bulbs for fall, while you can remember what blooms you liked this spring.)

You have more then ten garden books stacked up on your coffee table to read on rainy day. (Yes, that actually makes you more of a book-reading gardening geek, but let’s not quibble about it, because after all it is raining.)

You worked so hard in the garden the days before the rain that you are actually kind of glad to see some rain so you have an excuse to rest. Well, not really, but you tell people that so they won’t feel so bad for you that it is raining when you want to be out in the garden.

And finally, you might be a gardening geek in the rain if…

You make up a little rhyme. “Rain, rain, go away, Carol wants to garden today.”

21 comments:

I love going to the nursery on a rainy day which is usually in the winter here. The difficulty is managing to hold the umbrella and the coffee that you picked up down the street and push the cart all at the same time.

Great site, I think we can all learn something from your idea.this is fantastic looking blog..and I love the way you write!I hope you pick up the blog again soon. I have blog about home gardening too, same like you, I love gardening so much.

I live in Seattle. We go ahead and garden in the rain if it's not raining too hard. It mostly just drizzles here. If it's raining hard, I try to catch up on the indoor stuff I've been ignoring because I've been put in the garden. Or I just go visit a nursery.

Going to the nursery on a rainy day is perfect--that way you don't waste any gardening time! Yesterday was my first day back from Oregon, and all I could think about were all the garden chores I have to do--but it was raining! I think I'll sing that little rhyme with you:)

Or you might be a gardening geek if you just keep working even though it is raining on you and the dog is standing there looking at you like you have gone stark raving mad.

I have done all of your geeky things except the rabbit trap and umbrella thing, since I have no umbrella and I don't have a rabbit trap (although I have been contemplating acquiring one due to the large number of little bunnies that are enjoying the gardens this year.).

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